November - 2020

The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

In the 'hood

The last of the Thanksgiving leftovers have been consumed. Wreaths and tinsel are filling the stores. It must be time to shop for holiday...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 30, 2020

Like many of us in the Age of COVID, I’ll be hosting an unusually small Thanksgiving party tonight – just the four members of my...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 26, 2020

Fifty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Although Jane Austen was a professional writer who spent six...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 23, 2020

Some years ago – six? Ten? – I stumbled across a mention of an intriguing campaign to raise money for a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, to...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 19, 2020

Over at the CW, someone has had a startlingly original idea: How about – get this! – modern-day updates of Jane Austen’s novels? OMG!...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 16, 2020

Less than a year ago, a rich person with excellent taste snapped up a complete set of Jane Austen first editions at a New York auction....

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 12, 2020

I’m afraid I have some very bad news. The pandemic has taken so much from us, and now it seems to have taken something more. Long ago, in...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 9, 2020

This weekend, time zones are friendly to Janeites with an appetite for online convening. On paper, it looks like you’d have to choose how...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 5, 2020

A cheerful story with a political angle—and a Jane Austen twist! On the eve of Election Day here in the stressed-out, locked-down,...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 2, 2020